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Friday, January 24, 2014

Swedish textbook asks "Why is the Arab girl going to blow herself and others up?"

Expressen shows us a page from a textbook that is being used in a ninth grade class on religions: Translation: Student Worksheet: Judaism - was the first but is the least. Who has the right to the land? Imagine you ask a Jew and an Arab about who has right to the land now called Israel. Write what you think they would answer and how they would justify their opinion....

John Kerry's wishful thinking vs. Middle East reality

Both these videos were released in the past day. One is John Kerry on Al Arabiya saying why he is optimistic about peace talks. Gosh, he just can't imagine why people wouldn't want to live in peace with each other.Everyone wants the same thing, right? The other is a MEMRI video of a Hamas youth camp graduation. These are the thousands of Gaza high school kids that underwent paramilitary training and anti-Israel brainwashing over the past several...

From Philosémitisme Blog, translated by Antisemitism in Europe: Charles Ducal is Belgium's new 'national poet'. In this position, he will be expected to write poems which concern Belgium. Which might be new to him. Ducal has not written one poem on the atrocities committed by Belgians in their former colonies. However, he had time to dwell on the crimes of the Jews.* Together...

UPDATE: The Forward mentions this poster but says it is inaccurate. In fact, the company’s own estimate of how many Palestinians it employs is now 500 out of some 1,300 total workers — up from 160 Palestinians in December 2010 as a result of the growth in sales. And the poster’s grandiose claim that the company “built a mosque on site” appears to be based on a company...

An old joke

For some reason this joke, that I originally read in The Joys of Yiddish when I was a kid. popped into my head this morning. Here's a variation I found on the web: A Texan was touring Israel, complete with his cowboy hat and cowboy boots. We all know about the tendency of Texans to brag. While driving down a great, flat desert, he spied a tiny house in the distance, with a neat picket fence. Coming closer, he saw an elderly man leaning against...

According to this article, a new film being produced in Syria will center on the Jewish community of Damascus between 1850 and 1860. It appears to be an episode in a historic TV series called "Concierge of the Wind." In the film, the chief rabbi of Damascus, a fictional character named Rabbi Bashi "Badran Farhi," wants to move the community to Palestine but the community...

01/23 Links Pt2: UK MP again diminishes Holocaust Memorial Day, David Baddiel on the "Quenelle"

From Ian: David Ward MP *again* diminishes Holocaust Memorial Day This time last year, David Ward MP was censured by his own party, the Liberal Democrats, after claiming that, “the [liberated] Jews” were inflicting similar atrocities on the Palestinian people. Ward at the time continued to dig deeper, and has landed himself square in an anti-Semitic hole, having issued many statements over the course of the last year to similar effect. His comments...

Fisking Jeff Halper's diatribe at St. James

A few weeks ago, when St. James Church in London held their wall stunt, I posted an eyewitness account by Amie of the debate that was held there between Alan Johnson of BICOM and Jeff Halper, extreme anti-Israel leftist: Alan Johnson of Bicom spoke brilliantly; cogently articulating the case for the wall as a security issue. His rhetorical devices were masterly, as he spoke of the realities of the actual wall as against the never never world of...

Bolivia working with Iran on nuclear program?

BBC reports: Bolivian President Evo Morales has announced plans to build the country's first nuclear reactor. Mr Morales said the development of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes has become a strategic priority for his country. Speaking to members of the Bolivian Congress, he said that Iran, France and Argentina had volunteered to help with the development of the project. In fact, Iran's vice chancellor for European and American affairs,...

01/23 Links Pt1: Glick discusses 2-state solution, Fatah threatens to bomb Tel Aviv into a "ball of fire"

From Ian: Fatah publicizes threats to bomb Tel Aviv on its official Facebook page Once again Fatah has chosen to post threats of terror against Israel on its official Facebook page. Yesterday, the movement posted a video in which Fatah's military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, threatens to turn Tel Aviv into a "ball of fire": "We swear to you that we will turn the beloved [Gaza] Strip into a graveyard for your soldiers, and we will turn Tel...

Mohammad Shtayyeh, one of the PLO negotiators who resigned in November, said the negotiations with Israel side are going to fail, and will not be extended past April 29, saying they are heading towards a "one state" solution. During a conference called "Palestine and international law", in Jericho on Wednesday, he said "negotiations will be a failure, and then we will...

The PLO still insists on the Jewish Quarter and the Kotel being in "Palestine"

The PLO Negotiations Affairs Department put out a document last August detailing their specific demands on Jerusalem. The introduction is filled with inaccuracies: The June 4, 1967 border (the green line) is the internationally recognized border between the occupied State of Palestine and the State of Israel. This line separates the territory occupied by Israel during and since the June 1967 War, an occupation that has been condemned by the international...

Ma'an Arabic reports that a resident of the Jalazoun refugee camp was arrested on Wednesday because he named his new baby as "Mohamed Morsi," after the former Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood figure. Sources confirmed to Ma'an that the PA's General Intelligence Services summoned Abdel Halim Ghannam to investigate the event. Ghannam was a prisoner in Israeli jails...

Obama's "balanced" idiocy on Arab and Jewish bigotry

In a New Yorker interview, Barack Obama gave his 50,000 foot view of the Arab Israeli conflict. And he gets it very, very wrong. “With respect to Israel, the interests of Israel in stability and security are actually very closely aligned with the interests of the Sunni states.” As Saudi and Israeli diplomats berate Obama in unison, his reaction is, essentially, Use that. “What’s preventing them from entering into even an informal alliance with...

01/22 Links Pt2: Obama claims Muslim anti-Semitism only recent, Pinkwashing counter protest.

From Ian: Muslim anti-Semitism is only decades old, Obama claims “Anti-Semitism is hard-wired into Islam,” from its origins before 700, said Andrew Bostom, author of three books about Islam, including “The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism,” which lists centuries of anti-Semitic hatred, murders, pogroms and apartheid-like discrimination. Intellectuals, politicians and diplomats are loath to admit the centrality of anti-Semitism in Islamic beliefs, because...